SENATE FINALLY CONFIRMS PROF. STEPHEN OCHENI AND SULEIMAN HASSAN AS MINISTERS

The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Professor Stephen Okani Ocheni and Suleiman Zarma Hassan from Kogi and Gombe States respectively as Ministers. President Buhari had in March forwarded their names for screening and confimation.

While Hassan is expected to take over the ministerial slot of former Minister of the Environment, Amina Mohammed who is now the new UN Deputy Secretary-General, Ocheni will be taking over the slot of late James Ocholi, former Minister of state for Labor, who died in a fatal accident in March 2016.